No guts, no glory for Chinese journalists I feel somewhat like a chickenhawk for advocating this position for Chinese journalists but their dilemma seems easily resolved when you think about a journalist's true mission. The question comes down to the fundamental issue of whether they should be concerned with the economic advantages of working in a corrupt system or advancing the principles of their craft.

There is irony aplenty when you think of our own Washington press corps in that light. But illustrative of the persistence of this issue.

When you start to weasel on this point it becomes just a short hop to being an apologist for the role that Yahoo and others are playing in the Chinese government's information control.

Once again I must mention that Google, the fine folks that host this blog, are running dogs of the counter-revolutionaries.  ¶ 12/14/2005 11:41:00 PM